So, this is going to be my first game jam and I just want to say GOOD LUCK TO ALL YOU DUDES AND DUDETTS OUT THERE XD

I’ll be using Gamemaker, GIMP, Noteflight, and I believe that covers it

Let’s make this a great one XD…

Soooooo, I’ve been getting stuck in my code and I’ve been doing a lot of things… I still plan to present something, just, I don’t expect to finish it in the next 20 hours… It is finals week at my college XD Oh well, I’ll get it done…

Btw, I never talked about my lil impromptu idea XD

Basically, it’s repunzel but you drop stuff on the poor lil knights that try to rescue her.

I’m realizing that I could do better with the art stuff :O

So, for my first jam, I actually got it done XD.

Well, there are still A LOT of things I want to put into my game, like a scoreboard (a custom one), or additional flashiness but I’m content XD

Great job to all those that finished XD.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=17897

Because I had to do some packing for college, I wasn’t able to immediately start my game for the jam. Regardless, I was aiming for the jam period anyway, so yeah!

Wow, I’m so lucky I decided on an easy game to make. I’ve been doing a bunch of stuff besides my game but I’m more than enough done with my game that I can easily finish this in 6 hours. 😛

So, this is my game.

Anyways, for my second Ludum Dare,  I decided to do something most peculiar.

This was actually the first thing that popped in my head when I was at my Optometrist when my eyes were dilated early Saturday morning.

So, what was my game?

When I heard the theme, I had two ideas. One of them was a horror game where you blink every ten seconds and stuff happens but I meant it as something I wouldn’t like making.

So, what ideas popped in my head, based on the theme, when I was coming up with “In Just a Moment”? Well, contrary to the comments, I thought of “YOLO”. Like, I think of a lot of things before I make any decision. A lot of those thoughts being negative.

If  I were to talk to someone, I’m always self-conscious about how I present myself as I assume these bad things. But seriously, what can go wrong?  That was the question I wanted to present when I was making this game. “What can go wrong with a choice?”

Granted, the way I did it needs loads of improvements but did it I tried to do.

What went good:

• I finished a game despite having my hands full with moving into college and what not.
• I made the game to the exact idea that was in my head.
• I didn’t have any headaches at any point in making the game.
• The music in the game fit what I was going for perfectly

What went bad:

• My message wasn’t presented clearly.
• The music loop thing.
• I relied a bit too much on “Show, don’t Tell”
• How the game ended. It seems that just ending the game without the player deciding to stop playing affected the idea I had for what I wanted to do.

I liked working on “In Just a Moment” and am still working to make it better than what I already made. Just, I need to learn how to present my idea.

I love the comments I’m getting, how people think of the game as an examination on relationships and life but that idea’s way more advanced than how I originally imagined the game.

Let’s compare it to my first Ludum Dare game, Princess Sheltering.

This was definitely a better organized game than my LD 25 and was a lot easier to make in terms of the idea that I came up with. To be honest, compared to Princess Sheltering, this is something I’d still play, even though “In Just a Moment” is so short. It was also awesome that I had someone come by and make music for my game! So this Ludum Dare was just so much easier than my last Ludum Dare.

So, my final project for a class is to create a game prototype. Of course, that means I’m in. Plus I have the added desire of making it my final project for a class? Added motivation right there.

This time around, I’ll be messing around with either Unity or pure html5, javascript, and css3.

NO MORE GAMEMAKER STUFF FROM ME 😛 (at least for awhile)

And, no, I’m not procrastinating. 😀

Tags: im in, Ludum Dare 28

Final projects came in and blew my face off I don’t think I was destined to do even numbered Ludum Dare’s

Lol, so, while the deadline’s already over, since I finally have downtime after moving my stuff to my dorm room, I’ll finally be able to game jam, even though it won’t count for the jam, lol…